Our Work
With eco-friendly landscape techniques at the heart of our work, we teach respect for the creatures which keep the world blooming.
YOUR PARTICIPATION
Project-specific funding and employee volunteer hours bring the dream of interconnected pollinator habitat in Northern California ever closer to reality. Project Sponsorships enable you and your colleagues to build teamwork while giving back to the community. The Posse also can come to your workplace to give educational talks or plant habitat gardens. Our fundraising team can reach out to you if you contact us.
Presentations and Classroom Visits
Reach out to us via our contact page if you would like to arrange a guest speaker for your event, professional group, garden club, classroom or other organization. We can provide a variety of presentations on the status of pollinators, supportive gardening practices...
Help Bring Back the Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly the the East Bay Hills
The iridescent blue Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly looks tropical but it’s native to the East Bay hills. Its caterpillars can only survive eating the California Pipevine, which once grew in the creek beds and wild places. Since we have covered or developed most of...
Lu’s Memorial Pollinator Garden
Since 2010, significant portions of the Gardens at Lake Merritt have been converted from lawn to pollinator habitat. This portion was planted to honor the memory of Lucille Rocha and offer nectar and host plants for pollinators. A tranquil Seed Fountain quenches the...
Veterans Memorial Building Garden
On September 10, 2011, in commemoration of 10th Anniversary of 9/11, volunteers established this commemorative plot beautifying Oakland’s Veterans Memorial Building. Local vets recruited by The Mission Continues worked alongside community members to get this garden...
The Bee Hotel
The Bee Hotel (Gardens at Lake Merritt) With a design by Oakland City Carpenter, Troy Bally, inspired by Paris’s own bee hotel, our Hotel “opened” Earth Day 2013. Native bees dwell in wood and holes bored into the Hotel's blocks offer the insects shelter to nest and...
Oakland Fire Station #1 Pollinator Garden
This Pollinator Pathways way station in West Oakland (17th St and MLK) was designed by a neighborhood resident and funded by Kaiser Permanente and the National Corporation for Service and Volunteerism. City officials including the Fire Chief joined volunteers to...
Dragonfly Habitat at the Cascades
California’s multi-year drought prompted Park Supervisor and Posse founder Tora Rocha to upgrade the Gardens at Lake Merritt’s 60’s-era Cascades water feature with a filtration system. Dragonfly expert Kathy Bigelow-Teller advised local Eagle Scout NAME in this...
Children’s Fairyland Habitat
Oaklands storybook themed amusement park, Fairyland, has developed their ongoing Monarch Magic program and planted extensive pollinator habitat within the park grounds.
KONO Bikeways Planters
The Pathway extends northward toward Berkeley along Telegraph Avenue. Along that route, the Posse helped install planters, each its own mini habitat for pollinators
Pollinator Pavilion at the 2016 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
The Posse contributed fun and educational activities in a kid-friendly space at the 2016 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show. Posse members also offered attendees their expertise to promote, encourage and facilitate pollinator gardens at residential properties...
Lafayette Square Makeover
On Earth Day 2015, downtown Oakland’s Lafayette Square received a much-needed makeover and pollinators benefitted from several habitat plots planted that day. Oakland integrated technology design company Teecom contributed funding and its employees added ## square...